{"id":428,"date":"2015-10-19T19:00:35","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T01:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unk.com\/blog\/?p=428"},"modified":"2024-04-05T05:04:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T11:04:31","slug":"how-to-stop-your-clients-vicious-circle-of-worry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unk.com\/blog\/how-to-stop-your-clients-vicious-circle-of-worry\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Interventions for Treating Anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sheila came to see me because she couldn’t seem to stop the obsessive thought that her coworkers, friends, and even complete strangers on the street were judging her walk, clothing, laugh, and, well, everything about her.<\/p>\n

“The weird thing, Mark,” she told me, “is that I know, logically, that’s probably unlikely. So then I just feel like a freak that I can’t stop feeling so self conscious all the time<\/i>.”<\/p>\n

When we worry about worrying<\/h3>\n

You may have noticed that your anxiety clients often actually have two problems:<\/p>\n

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  1. The emotional problem they came to see you about<\/li>\n
  2. Worry about having<\/i> that problem.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    But the fact is, emotional disturbances are entirely… normal.<\/p>\n

    For instance, I gently reminded Sheila that some<\/i> self consciousness is actually essential to human interaction and empathy. It means we have the capacity to enter the minds of other people and imagine how they might feel and think.<\/p>\n

    Prefer to watch instead?<\/h3>\n